Lexic.us

Definition of Checker

1. Noun. An attendant who checks coats or baggage.

2. Verb. Mark into squares or draw squares on; draw crossed lines on.

3. Noun. One who checks the correctness of something.

4. Verb. Variegate with different colors, shades, or patterns.

5. Noun. One of the flat round pieces used in playing the game of checkers.

Definition of Checker

1. n. One who checks.

2. v. t. To mark with small squares like a checkerboard, as by crossing stripes of different colors.

3. n. A piece in the game of draughts or checkers.

Definition of Checker

1. Noun. One who checks something. ¹

2. Noun. The clerk who tallies cost of purchases and accepts payment. ¹

3. Noun. A playing piece in the game of checkers (British: draughts). ¹

4. Verb. (transitive) To mark in a pattern of alternating light and dark spots, like a checkerboard. ¹

5. Verb. (intransitive) To develop markings in a pattern of alternating light and dark spots, like a checkerboard. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Checker

1. to mark with squares [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Checker

checkable checkage checkages checkback checkbite checkbook checkbook journalism checkbooks checkbox checkboxes

checked checked build checked in checked out checked over checker (current term) checkerberries checkerberry checkerberry oil checkerbloom

checkerblooms checkerboard checkerboards checkered checkered adder checkered daffodil checkered flag checkered lily checkered whiptail

Literary usage of Checker

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Structural Drafting and the Design of Details by Carlton Thomas Bishop (1922)
"The checker is usually a man of greater experience than the detailer, and no draftsman ... A checker can work to better advantage than the detailer because ..."

2. Bulletin by United States (1918)
"The checker records all the particulars in regard to the cloth—first, ... The cloth checker puts an identification tag on the full roll of cloth as it is ..."

3. Hand-book of American Gas-engineering Practice by Nisbet Latta (1907)
"Regarding the cleaning of checker brick the committee of the American Gaslight Association states as follows: "The checker bricks of a water-gas apparatus ..."

4. The Furniture of Our Forefathers by Esther Singleton, Russell Sturgis (1913)
"Backgammon-boards or -tables and checker-boards were very popular. ... 4) in 1741 ; and in 1744 we rind two checker-boards valued at j£i. ..."

5. Practical Thermodynamics: A Treatise on the Theory and Design of Heat by Forrest E. Cardullo (1911)
"Consequently the number square feet of checker work required per horse-power will be 12.4 0.30 ' 41. If this checker work be assumed to consist, ..."

6. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"... woven probably in a checker pattern; (3) a 2'Appa ,' threads of blue, purple, and scarlet. girdle also of byssus, inwoven \vith 2) there were inwoven ..."

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